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2010 (71)

2010.09.07 ISCRIM2010
I am currently attending the 2010 seminar of the International Supply…
2010.09.04 Christchurch earthquake and transportation resilience
Resilient organizations and the Christchurch…
2010.09.02 Book Review: Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management
I am amazed at what this book covers – it does contain all you…
2010.08.30 Infrastructure Vulnerability
This paper describes an infrastructure risk analysis model,…
2010.08.28 Importance and Exposure – Measures of Road Network Vulnerability?
The paper calculates several indices for link importance and site…
2010.08.27 Logipi – why you should listen to it
Logipi.com is the brainchild of Dustin Mattson and is a site with a…
2010.08.26 The ISCRIM Newsletter 1/2010
Published 2-3 times a year by the International Supply Chain Risk…
2010.08.25 Blog Supply Chain Risk: Writer’s Block
Considering what I wrote in my post on the supply chain of my blog,…
2010.08.24 Next time in China: Guanxi
Guanxi: Connections and relations are what matter most, while…
2010.08.23 Supply Chain Risk: Culture Shock
Is culture shock the reason why so many global and cross-culture…
2010.08.04 Book Review: Humanitarian Logistics
This book matches humanitarian logistics with corporate social…
2010.07.11 WCTR 2010
Are “bad” locations synonymous with “bad” logistics? That is the…
2010.07.01 Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability
Here is a risk assessment index that can be used to measure the…
2010.06.23 Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains
What are the key supply chain factors for improving disaster supply…
2010.06.19 The causes of logistics uncertainty
Logistics uncertainty – a new research strand in supply chain risk…
2010.06.14 How Norwegian freight carriers handle supply chain disruptions
How are the supply chains of companies located in sparse…
2010.06.11 State of the art in SCRM?
Supply chain risk management is a process with 5 evolutionary steps,…
2010.05.03 Risk and Vulnerability in Virtual Enterprise Networks
Conceptual in its approach and drawing from other areas of research,…
2010.04.30 What goes into resilience?
Resilience, in essence, is bridging vulnerabilities by honing…
2010.04.29 Pay more get more?
“Suitemates” is the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Episode 5…
2010.04.24 Volcanic ash cloud – really a surprise?
Icelandic civil aviation authorities have warned Europe for a long…
2010.04.23 Managing risk together
How do risks in supply relationships and and organizational learning…
2010.04.21 Using social media in a crisis
Scandinavian Airlines launched its Facebook page the day before the…
2010.04.21 Sweet Seduction
“Suitemates” is the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Episode 4…
2010.04.20 Book Review: Heads in the sand
What is business continuity really? It is the social responsibility…
2010.04.19 Volcanic Ash Cloud Day 5
Today is Day Five of the infamous volcanic ash cloud disruption. Does…
2010.04.18 Can we do without air traffic?
The German newspaper Die Welt has an interesting, semi-humorous…
2010.04.17 Business continuity 101
This is the 3rd day with severe transportation and thus supply chain…
2010.04.16 Not all risk is risk
The article lists and discusses eight risk definitions, and then…
2010.04.15 Today’s transport disruption: volcanoes
Now Norway and much of Northern Europe are facing a major supply…
2010.04.14 Downgrades are upgrades
Their software is so full of bugs that even upgrading doesn’t fix it,…
2010.04.13 Supply chain vulnerability: A list of mitigation strategies
Which mitigation strategy that works best when faced with which…
2010.04.12 Vulnerable or valuable supply chain?
Supply chain integrity must encompass both operational and…
2010.04.11 Time for a change
With the help of a weekend, and the principle of KISS (Keep It Simple…
2010.04.10 Suites – what suites?
Today they take us back to their company presentation after their…
2010.04.09 Risk versus vulnerability
In this paper safety and security are brought together in a unifying…
2010.04.04 Friend or foe or both?
Supply chain collaboration, easy or difficult? And can it really…
2010.04.03 Flexing your SCM muscles
Flexible supply chains can indeed “flex” their supply chain…
2010.04.01 ERP consultants: A nightmare
Suitemates is produced by Kinaxis, a Canada-based company that…
2010.03.29 Shrink Shrank Shrunk
This is one of the articles – if not THE article – that paved the way…
2010.03.28 Transportation – the forgotten staple
Transportation is a staple ingredient in supply chains and…
2010.03.27 Ménage à trois – the good, the bad and the ugly
Triads in supply networks: Theorizing buyer-supplier-relationships …
2010.03.25 Humanitarian aid is better when decentralized
Decentralization, pre-positioning and pooling of relief items are key…
2010.03.24 Business Continuity in Global Supply Chains
Essentially, there is no difference between a business continuity…
2010.03.23 Supply Chain Risk Webinars
I do have a lecture on supply chain risk, but not in webinar style….
2010.03.21 Humanitarian Logistics
Now there is a new source for knowledge on disaster management and…
2010.03.18 Better Alexa ranking – how to
Today I will share some personal thoughts on my blogging: The magic…
2010.03.17 Published. Not perished.
Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is…
2010.03.16 Book Review: Managing Risk and Security
This book focuses specifically on security risks, as seen from the…
2010.03.13 Book Review: The Geography of Transport Systems
This book will fascinate, because it so brilliantly explains,…
2010.03.10 Pyramidal thoughts
If you are a supply chain or logistics academic or researcher,…
2010.03.08 Contingent flexibility
Can contingency planning increase flexibility and minimize risk…
2010.03.05 Managing supply chains in times of crisis
How do you prepare a supply chain for a crisis, and how do you manage…
2010.03.03 Risk Disablers
A new framework for the interpretation of supply chain risk…
2010.03.01 Community resilience in times of disaster
Can public-private partnerships improve community resilience?…
2010.02.26 Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.
It is only when the consequences of actions and events are uncertain…
2010.02.23 Information Risk Management
The article highlights that information risks are interrelated and…
2010.02.20 Risk Analysis of Critical Infrastructures
This article presents a new conceptual approach and extended…
2010.02.18 Less cost and less disruptions?
If you know that your shipment will arrive late, you are perhaps less…
2010.02.12 Supply Chain Risk: Invasive Species
The global network of ships criss-crossing the oceans provide perhaps…
2010.02.10 The 2nd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar Barcelona
The main focus of this seminar is how leading companies are tackling…
2010.01.25 A note to my readers
I’m moving house and I’ve been renovating my new apartment every…
2010.01.13 Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake
The recent earthquake in Haiti is a poignant reminder of how…
2010.01.11 If the UK goes cold, blame me
The BBC reports that National Grid has issued its latest “balancing…
2010.01.09 The Definition of Agility
This is the only reference I have found that properly differentiates…
2010.01.07 No grit No roads No show?
No grit means no cleared roads means no one able to get anywhere and…
2010.01.06 Security of supply
Today’s paper describes how Finland views logistics and supply as…
2010.01.05 SME: A supply chain risk?
Does having Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in your supply…
2010.01.04 Supply Chain Risk Literature: a complete review
Finally, here it is, the complete review of some 160 or so articles…
2010.01.02 Does a blog have a supply chain?
If that is the case, are blogs exposed to supply chain risks? This…
2010.01.01 2009 – traffic and such
One post in particular stands out, but not for the reason I expected….

2009 (164)

2009.12.27 2009 – looking back
Time for a short review of 2009, looking back at how this blog has…
2009.12.22 Happy Holidelays!
We rarely see news flashes of truck drivers stuck in snow, or…
2009.12.21 Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management
Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world,…
2009.12.19 SAAB no more…
What do you when your major customer goes bust? How do you cope with…
2009.12.18 Contemplating…Ken Simpson
Ken’s blog is a must read for the business continuity professional…
2009.12.17 Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks
Merchant shipping and port services play a key role in worldwide…
2009.12.16 Coping with risk and resilience in maritime logistics
Risks in maritime supply chains are perhaps an underresearched area…
2009.12.15 Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains
The complex interaction of ports, maritime operations and supply…
2009.12.14 Risks in maritime supply chains
Sea transport constitutes the major part of almost every supply…
2009.12.13 Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains
The recent trends such as offshore manufacturing, lean sourcing and…
2009.12.11 Book Review: Enterprise SCM
What we have here is a book that fully covers the complete setup of a…
2009.12.10 Dignitary Visits and Supply Chain Disruptions
Today is an important day here in Norway. Some Mr. Barack Obama comes…
2009.12.10 Book Review: HBR on Supply Chain Management
The overarching theme of this book is the development of supply chain…
2009.12.09 Book Review: Managing External Risk
You don’t need to have an MBA to be enable to enjoy this book,…
2009.12.08 Risks and supply chains… stochastically speaking2
Little did I know when I started reading this paper that it was…
2009.12.07 Supply Chain Confidence
Traditionally, papers on supply chain risk use the “classic”…
2009.12.05 The @risk Blog
It is always nice to find blogs on supply chain risk written by a…
2009.12.04 Risk & Vulnerability
Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex webs and networks and…
2009.12.03 Risky ramblings
Here, six areas of supply chain risk are highlighted and discussed at…
2009.12.02 MITIP 2010 – Call for Papers
The MITIP conferences have proven to be an important forum for…
2009.12.01 Perspectives on risk management in supply chains
Today’s article is actually not an article on it’s own, but an…
2009.11.27 Road Vulnerability
Today we are going back in time, to one of the seminal articles in…
2009.11.26 INSTR 2010 – Call for papers
The aim of INSTR is to bring together researchers and professionals…
2009.11.25 Remote Logistics
The other day I came across a post that highlighted the importance of…
2009.11.24 Emergency Logistics
Can commercial logistics’ ideas and solutions work in humanitarian…
2009.11.23 Risk Management in Global Supply Chain Networks
Supply Chain Risks can be classified as either one of these three,…
2009.11.21 Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains
To make up for yesterday’s perhaps overly harsh critique of just…
2009.11.20 One bad apple…
…spoils the barrel? While many of the articles/chapters maintain an…
2009.11.18 Supply Chain Risk 2009
Supply Chain Risk – The dark side of supply chain management. That…
2009.11.17 Mitigating supply chain disruptions is easy
Christopher Tang from UCLA talks about three strategies for building…
2009.11.16 Supply, Demand, and … “Miscellanous” Risk?
I’ve said so before, sometimes new articles are found in new and…
2009.11.13 The Box is back!
A year ago the BCC started “The Box” project, where BBC News is…
2009.11.12 The Kinaxis Blog
Here is a high-quality blog for you, the Kinaxis Blog, or as they put…
2009.11.11 Book Review: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability
The book serves a twofold purpose: 1) Understanding and assessing…
2009.11.09 Book Review: Single Point of Failure
This book shows you how everyone is involved in the supply chain…
2009.11.08 Risk and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management
I am very much impressed with this extensive literature study on risk…
2009.11.06 Critical: Beer Distribution
Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a…
2009.11.05 Black Swan Events
Black Swan events – should we even bother? These events are…
2009.11.04 Graph Theory to the rescue
While I know that Graph Theory has many applications, I never…
2009.11.03 Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks
What fascinates me with this paper are (1) the parameters defining…
2009.11.02 Rigorous Risk Management
Risk management is emerging as a key focus area for corporations,…
2009.10.30 Supply Chain Risk – Jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Unbeknown to me – or perhaps I really should have known better –…
2009.10.28 Supply chain risk in turbulent environments
What is supply chain risk in turbulent environments really…simply…
2009.10.27 Supply Chain Matters
On the Supply Chain Matters blog Bob provides his unbiased views,…
2009.10.26 A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility
What do you do when you find two research papers by the same three…
2009.10.19 Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure
This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in…
2009.10.05 Transportation Hazards
This is an updated and extended review of the Handbook of…
2009.10.01 Humanitarian and military supply chains side-by side
Only by combining military and humanitarian supply chains, the…
2009.09.28 Supply chain agility – Risk mitigation and response
How does company culture shape a firm’s risk mitigation and…
2009.09.21 Bad locations = bad logistics?
How are companies located in sparse transport networks affected by…
2009.09.14 Is Sheffi’s Resilient Enterprise the answer to supply chain risk?
Building a resilient enterprise is an enterprise-wide undertaking …
2009.09.07 Is Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment the way of the future?
The key issue is to not make your supply chain one type only, but to…
2009.08.31 What’s so special about this Paul Kleindorfer?
Apparently there must be something really special about Paul…
2009.08.24 Catastrophic events in supply chains
Finding the right facility location is difficult enough. Keeping it…
2009.08.20 The ISCRIM Newsletter 2/2009
As a researcher within supply chain risk, I find the ISCRIM…
2009.08.17 Risk management: core competence?
Blindly minimizing risk is a losing proposition in the long term, and…
2009.08.10 Measuring supply chain risk management
There can be no generally valid risk for all types of supply chains,…
2009.08.03 Supply Chain Risk Management in six steps
Supply management is not just about acquiring goods and services at…
2009.07.29 Measuring supply chain risk management and performance
Each individual supply chain is unique in certain respects and this…
2009.07.24 Corporate vulnerability
In this study, Svensson investigates the areas, the causes and the…
2009.07.21 Are risks in virtual enterprise networks different from supply chains?
Conceptual in its approach and drawing from other areas of research,…
2009.07.19 Hard Drive Recovery and Business Continuity
Do you regularly back up vital business information? Not? Well, maybe…
2009.07.17 A supply chain is never stronger than the weakest link
Are you the weakest link in your own supply chain? That’s the…
2009.07.04 BBC World Debate: Disasters – Prepare or React?
Should we actually bother to spend time and money on disaster…
2009.07.01 Supply chain management – the new research cocktail?
Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way…
2009.06.29 Supply chain flexibility – a complete literature review?
Someone had to come up with this, it was just a matter of time, and…
2009.06.25 Trust, Control and Risk in Strategic Alliances
Risk perception and risk management are important subjects in…
2009.06.23 Biting the hand that feeds. Or why all firms are snakes.
‘All firms are snakes’. So says Paul D. Cousins in A conceptual model…
2009.06.22 Does product design have an impact on supply chain risk?
What is in the supply chain is determined by a design process, and…
2009.06.19 The latest trends in logistics and supply chain management research
What is at the forefront of current research in supply chain…
2009.06.18 Resilience revisited
How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality,…
2009.06.17 Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
Critical asset factors are the criteria used to identify and…
2009.06.16 Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important – or…
2009.06.15 Engineering transportation lifelines
New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when…
2009.06.13 The six ways of dealing with risk
Avoid, Reduce, Transfer and Retain or Accept are the classic four…
2009.06.12 Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative
Risk management needs to address both sides of the risk: what lies…
2009.06.10 Broader research = better research?
I like mixing ideas, and my approach to logistics, or supply chain…
2009.06.09 What kind of Supplychainist are you?
What is SCM really, is it just a new name for logistics or is it…
2009.06.08 Supply Chain Risk Management – A relationship approach
SCRM needs to address the whole supply chain, since risk can emanate…
2009.06.07 Google Scholar – really scholarly?
Google Scholar is simply a discovery tool for finding scholarly…
2009.06.06 Book Review: Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management
This is a handbook indeed, allowing the reader to focus on one area…
2009.06.05 How to get a PhD without a dissertation
This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without…
2009.06.03 Risk in supply networks – a tale of principals and agents
It is not often that I see a paper focusing on the network…
2009.06.01 Fragility and sustainability: emerging research areas?
Should short-term loss-minimization and short-term profit…
2009.05.30 Online journals – curse or blessing?
Making scholarly articles available online has narrowed citations to…
2009.05.29 Supply chain risk management – a complete literature review?
Is it possible to summarize seven years of supply chain risk…
2009.05.28 Lean + Agile = LeAgile: a happy marriage?
Opposites attract and in the supply chain world, “lean” and…
2009.05.27 The Catch 22 of Academic Publishing
“Publish or perish”. Apparently, getting published in the first…
2009.05.26 De-confusing SCRM: robustness, resilience, flexibility and agility
These concepts are often confused, and thus, warrant further…
2009.05.25 Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain
This book is clear and concise, to the point, and constantly…
2009.05.24 Risk in supply networks – seeing it all, or not?
This paper is an excellent discourse on types of risk, sources of…
2009.05.23 The Grapevine – An evolving social media experiment
This is a site dedicated to making it easy for business people to…
2009.05.22 Supply Risk Management: just common sense?
There are four situational factors that are important in supply…
2009.05.20 A-maze-ing discoveries
After only knowing about it for a day or two, I must say that I am…
2009.05.19 Supply Chain Risk Management – as seen from Space
Is it possible to reconcile supply chain vulnerability, risk and…
2009.05.18 Secure Supply Chain Collaboration
SecureSCM is an EU-funded research project aimed at finding secure…
2009.05.17 Research Blogging – an outlet for the investigative mind?
I have finally found the right outlet for disseminating my literature…
2009.05.16 Agile Business Continuity
If people are taught to think continuity in their daily work actions,…
2009.05.15 How the wrong people can ruin a supply chain
People are what makes organizations work, or in some cases, not work….
2009.05.14 Lean logistics = risky logistics?
Lean does not necessarily make you more vulnerable or less robust…
2009.05.13 Finding academic articles without access to academic journals
Many management or supply chain related websites provide the same…
2009.05.12 The ISCRIM Newsletter 1/2009
As a researcher within supply chain risk, I find the ISCRIM…
2009.05.11 Structural embeddedness and the extended supply chain
We need to consider how a supplier is embedded in its own networks if…
2009.05.07 Global supply chain risk management strategies
Three factors affect the selection of risk management strategies:…
2009.05.05 Risk and Supply Chain Management – Creating a Research Agenda
Albeit exploratory and conceptual in its approach, the article…
2009.04.22 Book Review: Virtual Teams
What is comes down to is that virtual teams have six challenges:…
2009.04.20 Economies of integration
The evolutional development of logistics: specialization, economies…
2009.04.18 Book Review: Creative Destruction
One of the ways an economy moves forward is by destroying the old in…
2009.04.15 Book Review: Enterprise-wide Risk Management
DeLoach has a refreshing new approach to risk management that is is…
2009.04.13 Supply Chain Risk – the forgotten discipline
Christopher advocates establishing a supply chain risk profile, with…
2009.04.10 Book Review: How Nature Works
Per Bak’s “sandpile” model is as relevant to business and…
2009.04.07 Supply Chain Management – does it really exist?
Basically, the two, management and logistics, are living…
2009.04.04 Book Review: Cooperative Strategy
This book provides insight into different kinds of cooperative…
2009.03.31 Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks
I must admit that I knew very little, if anything, about Virtual…
2009.03.27 A Decade of Living Dangerously
The report not only shows how many managers are aware of a specific…
2009.03.26 Risk Avoidance – is that all there is?
The opposite of risk avoidance is risk ignorance. More often than not…
2009.03.25 Avbrudd – Forsyningskjedens mørke side
Selv om kostnadsreduserende tiltak og outsourcing kan ha klare…
2009.03.24 Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
I have seldom seen a fuller and more holistic approach to cost and…
2009.03.22 The IRM Risk Management Standard
Good corporate governance requires that companies adopt a methodical…
2009.03.21 Book Review: Transportation Security
Although at times heavily US and homeland security oriented, this…
2009.03.21 The 2009 Nordic Business Continuity Symposium
I guess this will be THE gathering of who’s who in the Nordic…
2009.03.20 Risky Thinking
Obviously I cannot make a post on my blog about every wbsite that…
2009.03.19 Book Review: Transportation Systems Security
The front cover gives the impression that this book deals with all…
2009.03.18 Transportation reliability and vulnerability – a question of cost and benefit?
Engineering (reliability and vulnerability), economics (cost and…
2009.03.18 The Business Continuity Institute
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to…
2009.03.17 Jumpstart your VEN adventure
A VEN is a way for businesses to achieve virtual scale, enabling it…
2009.03.16 Er rassikring lønnsomt?
Rassikring av veger har en klar samfunnsøkonomisk nytteverdi, men…
2009.03.15 Managing Supply Chain Risk
Did you know that the Supply Chain Council (SCS) has extended their…
2009.03.14 Understanding risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks
I am currently writing a book chapter for the book Managing Risk in…
2009.03.13 Saving Norway’s crumbling infrastructure
The government intends to spend some 320,000,000 NOK…
2009.03.13 D-Day for Norway’s Transport Infrastructure
Today, on this ominous date, Friday the 13th, Norway’s government…
2009.03.09 The supply chain of the future
Instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. That is IBM’s vision of…
2009.03.06 Magnified Risk in Multi-Enterprise Supply Chains
Even if the manufacturing takes place out-house, product design…
2009.03.05 Call for papers – MITIP 2009
The factory of the future is calling for a shift in strategic vision….
2009.03.04 Supply chain disruption risk on the rise
Every year, Aon publishes a political risk map, and in 2009 the…
2009.03.03 Supply chains and barcodes
Have you ever thought about how barcodes are a major factor in…
2009.03.03 Vulnerability in business relationships
The perceived trust and the perceived dependence in business…
2009.03.02 The curse of being oil-rich
Ah…the complacency of being oil rich. So complacent, in fact, that…
2009.03.02 Managing Disruption Risks in the Supply Chain – the DRISC model
The Disruption Risks in Supply Chain (DRISC) model is developed for…
2009.03.01 Infrastructure – essential for competitiveness?
In overall infrastructure quality, Norway ranks 28/134, behind many…
2009.03.01 Fewer suppliers mean fewer choices for consumers
What used to be a banking crisis is now a manufacturing crisis and…
2009.02.27 The effects of brand reputation on supply chain risk
SAAB owes money to some 1400 debtors, and rumors have it that some…
2009.02.26 Interpreting Resiliency
Kelly Pitera explores and evaluates resiliency efforts currently…
2009.02.25 What is Freight Transportation System Resilience?
The paper defines resilience along three dimensions: Physical…
2009.02.24 How to count money spent on road investments
Norway spent less money on road investments in 2007 than in 1995,…
2009.02.23 How come one of the world’s richest countries has one of the world’s worst road network?
2009.02.23 7 out of 10 businesses in Norway without a continuity plan
How does ICT-failure link up with supply chain…
2009.02.20 Less supply chain disruptions with vendor managed inventory?
How does a traditional supply chain compare to a vendor managed…
2009.02.18 Global Risks 2009 – Countries at risk?
How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains?…
2009.02.16 Supply Chain Security – an overview and research agenda
The article claims to have found four approaches in the literature on…
2009.02.13 Investing in Supply Chain Security – Reaping Collateral Benefits
2009.02.12 Economists versus Technocrats – who wins?
2009.02.10 Balanced Scorecards for Supply Chains
2009.02.10 The BBC box
2009.02.04 CSCMP Europe 2009 Conference – where SCM professionals meet
2009.02.03 How to secure your supply chain – 7/7
2009.02.01 The Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar Barcelona 2009
2009.01.31 The European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit
2009.01.30 How to secure your supply chain – 6/7
2009.01.29 MITIP2009 – a conference worth considering
2009.01.28 Book Review: Supply Chain Risk – A Handbook of Assessment, Managment and Performance
2009.01.22 Global Risk Reports
2009.01.15 When disaster strikes…
2009.01.11 Supply Chain Disruptions in Sparse Transportation Networks: Does Location Matter?

2008 (84)

2008.12.21 How to secure your supply chain – 5/7
2008.12.17 How to secure your supply chain – 4/7
2008.12.11 Norwegian roads are slooooow…
2008.12.09 How to secure your supply chain – 3/7
2008.12.07 How to secure your supply chain – 2/7
2008.12.06 How to secure your supply chain – 1/7
2008.12.05 How to secure your supply chain
2008.12.01 Airports – vital to supply chains?
2008.11.19 Supply Chain Risk Management – a practicioner’s perspective
2008.11.18 Supply chain disruptions by pirates – now a real threat?
2008.11.17 The threat of Somali pirates force shipping companies to take the long route
2008.11.17 Thanks to Somali pirates Santa will not be coming this year?
2008.11.16 Business Intelligence – a key element in Supply Chain Risk Management
2008.11.14 TRB 2009 – are you going there, too?
2008.11.13 The Supply Chain Network Project
2008.11.12 Supply Chain Risk – the dark side of supply chain management
2008.11.05 Conferences in Transportation and Supply Chain
2008.11.04 Sparse transportation networks – a nightmare for supply chains
2008.11.04 A Future Research Agenda for Supply Chain Risk Management
2008.11.02 Strategies for managing risk in multinational corporations
2008.10.31 Global Supply Chain Risk Management
2008.10.27 Can Somali pirates bring down European supply chains?
2008.10.26 International Transport Economics Conference 2009
2008.10.22 Avoid Supply Chain Breakdown by Tailoring Your Risk Management
2008.10.18 Ericsson versus Nokia – the now classic case of supply chain disruption
When faced with a supply chain disruption, proactive and reactive…
2008.10.15 Risikohåndtering i forsyningskjeder
2008.10.12 Global Risks 2008 – A prediction come true
2008.10.09 A new supply chain perspective: The supply chain life cycle
Not only is a supply chain a network of interlinked actors, but the…
2008.10.04 Sparse transportation networks – overcoming locational disadvantage
2008.09.29 Will your business byte the dust?
2008.09.19 Sparse transportation networks – a recipe for supply chain disruptions?
2008.09.18 Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe
2008.09.17 Identification and simulation of risks in supply networks
2008.09.16 Sustainability means less vulnerability?
2008.09.02 A conceptual framework of vulnerability in firms' inbound and outbound logistics flows
2008.09.01 A conceptual framework for the analysis of vulnerability in supply chains
2008.08.29 America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
2008.08.25 Drivers of supply chain vulnerability
2008.08.24 Norwegian roads are dangerous!
2008.08.06 Finding the right location – minimizing disruption costs
2008.08.04 Economies of scale
2008.08.04 From the back room to the board room – supply chain risk management
2008.08.03 Accessibility Index – a measure of Transport Network Vulnerability?
2008.07.19 Supply Chain Disruptions – Does location matter?
2008.07.11 The Severity of Supply Chain Disruptions: Design Characteristics and Mitigation Capabilities
2008.07.10 Book Review: Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management
2008.07.09 Cutting back on road spending may not be a wise thing to do
2008.07.06 Supply Chain Visibility through Web Conferencing
2008.07.04 NOFOMA – The Nordic Logistics Research Network
2008.07.03 Is there a distinctive Nordic approach to Logistics and Supply Chain Management?
2008.07.02 Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?
2008.07.01 eSourcingWiki – can it be trusted?
2008.06.30 Book Review: The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management
2008.06.29 Supply Chain Risk Management and Business Continuity Management
2008.06.28 A lesson in supply chain disruption: German railway transport during WWII
2008.06.27 Location, location, location – Supply chain management in disruption-susceptible locations
2008.06.27 Assess the vulnerability of your production system
2008.06.26 Sheffi’s disruption profile
2008.06.25 A risky business? The top 10 challenges of offshoring
2008.06.23 Categorization of Supply Chain Risk and Risk Management
2008.06.20 The difference between legal and illegal supply chains
2008.06.19 An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability
2008.06.17 Managing risk in global supply chains
2008.06.15 Can you outsource risk?
2008.06.14 Book review: Supply Chain Risk Management
2008.06.11 Building a secure and resilient supply chain
2008.06.06 Piracy at sea – is your supply chain at risk?
2008.05.29 Supply Chain Risk Management 2008
2008.05.18 Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience
In contrast to the pre-event character of mitigation, economic…
2008.04.30 The art of reviewing journal submissions
It’s always interesting to look at the submission in question and…
2008.04.29 Should you join the Supply Chain Network SCN?
From a quick browse before making this post I realized there are…
2008.04.28 Robustness, flexibility and resilience in the supply chain
In a previous post I discussed the issue of Flexibility and…
2008.04.27 Risk Central
Risk Central is a private and personal initiative and web portal…
2008.04.26 Why risk is the buzzword in supply chain management
What is supply chain risk? Today I will take a closer look at the…
2008.04.25 Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Responsiveness, reliability and relationships are the basis for…
2008.04.22 Supply chains compete, not companies
Martin Christopher’s particular research interests lie at the…
2008.04.18 Three steps to make your supply chain less vulnerable
To make the supply chain more resilient, businesses need to do more…
2008.04.15 Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
Transportation professionals should look into the challenges posed by…
2008.04.13 Book Review: Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Event Management
Laden with case studies this book thoroughly explains what possible…
2008.04.11 The International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRIM)
The main purpose of the ISCRIM-network is to speed up, and improve,…
2008.03.25 Supply Chain Risk Management: A Neural Network Approach
Supply chain event management (abbreviated as SCEM) is a…
2008.03.11 Book Review: Supply Chain Risk
The book fully shows that supply chain risk management is a wide…
2008.01.18 International Conference on Flexible Supply Chains in a Global Economy, 16 – 18 July 2008, Molde, Norway
Since this conference is held right at my doorstep I thought I should…
2008.01.16 Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management
This excellent book by Donald Waters offers a comprehensive overview…

2007 (13)

2007.12.31 Do you know where your truck fleet is right now? No? You should.
These days, GPS technology can not only pinpoint any vehicle’s…
2007.12.23 Oslo airport shut-down…lessons learned?
The airline industry is a highly competitive market and even…
2007.12.12 Book Review: The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage
To me, this book by Yossi Sheffi was an eye-opener, not so much for…
2007.12.10 Why we need to think the unthinkable
To think the unthinkable, to plan for the unthinkable is maybe not…
2007.12.09 Can Supply Chain Management learn from Emergency Management?
Readiness, Response and Recovery are four key elements in the New…
2007.10.09 Impact assessment of road transportation projects
The strength of the Norwegian impact assesment method is how…
2007.09.15 The Swedish Road Network – Vulnerable or not?
This methodology for vulnerability analysis of road networks that can…
2007.09.09 How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
As our infrastructure and organisations become ever more networked…
2007.09.02 Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?
Supply chain vulnerability is an important business issue, but little…
2007.09.01 Book Review: Logistics Management and Strategy
I have found it hard to find a book that explains the concepts of…
2007.08.26 How to disrupt a supply chain
A typical supply chain consists of a company with incoming raw…
2007.02.06 Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis – Concepts and Practice
This book by Anthony Boardman et al. is aheavy read. It is not a book…
2007.01.05 Cost-Benefit Analysis – an essay about valuation problems
Reliability and vulnerability are important elements in ensuring a…

2006 (1)

2006.05.16 Transport Network Vulnerability – which metrics should we use?
This paper presents a review of road network vulnerability, seeking…

2005 (2)

2005.03.05 Book Review: Transportation GIS
This book showcases many examples of how GIS can be applied in the…
2005.01.13 The vulnerability of road networks in a cost-benefit perspective
A reliable transportation network represents a net benefit to…

2004 (10)

2004.12.15 Flexibility and robustness as options to reduce risk and uncertainty
Acknowledging one’s exposure to risks and devising a strategy for how…
2004.10.06 Reliability and vulnerability versus costs and benefits
the focal point of this paper is to look at a road network from a…
2004.08.25 Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be…
2004.08.25 Book review: Handbook of Transportation Engineering
Comprehensive and all-encompassing, this handbook may be way to much…
2004.08.25 Book review: Transport – An Economics and Management Perspective
Kept at an executive level, this book delves just deep enough for you…
2004.08.25 Reliability and vulnerability versus costs and benefits
The paper outlines a framework for developing a methodology that to…
2004.04.25 Why reliability and vulnerability should be an issue in road development projects
Why is the reliability, or conversely, the vulnerability, of the…
2004.04.20 Pålitelighet og sårbarhet – et ikke-tema i nyttekostnadsanalyser?
Pålitelighet og sårbarhet er to forhold av betydning for…
2004.01.28 Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application
I used this book to learn more about cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in…
2004.01.27 Book Review: Transportation Network Analysis
Drawing heavily on academic knowledge this book almost requires a…

2003 (1)

2003.08.25 Book review: Geographic Information Systems for Transportation
Mind you, this book is not for the fainthearted, this is solid…

2002 (7)

2002.12.05 ArcView Network Analyst Tutorial
How to solve 3 network analysis problems; Find Best Route, Find…
2002.05.05 Utvikling av en helhetlig metode for analyse av pålitelighet og sårbarhet av transportsystemer
Påliteligheten og sårbarheten i et transportsystem er avgjørende…
2002.04.25 The reliability and vulnerability of transportation lifelines
Transportation networks like freeways and interstate highways are the…
2002.04.04 JavalancheTM – analyzing hazards to roads
In the approach used in this procedure, imagine traveling along the…
2002.04.03 Shortest Path Computation: A Comparative Analysis
Current research work into establishing a performance efficiency…
2002.03.22 A spatial framework for modeling hazards to transportation lifelines
Transportation networks are exposed to a wide range of natural…
2002.01.27 Book review: Networks and Algorithms
This book tells you the difference between the various types of…

2001 (4)

2001.10.31 Can it really be that dangerous? Issues in visualization of risk and vulnerability
Visualization technology has emerged as a form of exploratory…
2001.05.12 MFworks Tutorial
This tutorial, developed in 2002, is a showcase on network analysis…
2001.04.25 Corridor Analysis – A timeline of evolutionary development
Locating a corridor connecting an origin and a destination on a…
2001.02.01 The use of air photos in emergency management
Air photos can capture a lot more information than field surveys can,…

2000 (4)

2000.09.01 How to make a straight line square
The research of this thesis for the Msc in GIS explores the topic of…
2000.06.25 Fastest path problems in dynamic transportation networks
This research essay and literature review investigates some of the…
2000.03.19 Book Review: This is where raster GIS started…
…well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and…
2000.02.15 ERDAS tutorial
This tutorial is taken from my coursework for the MSc in GIS at the…

1999 (3)

1999.11.28 How to use IDRISI GIS
This paper was written in 1999 as part of my coursework for the MSc…
1999.11.14 Road Transportation Management using GIS – vehicle routing and tracking
Using GIS in the field of transportation opens up a wide range of…
1999.10.11 Network analysis – raster versus vector – A comparison study
The key to producing successful network models is in understanding…

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